Quick Help: Restore Flip3D Icon in Windows Vista
After writing the article yesterday about how to restore the show desktop icon, I received a number of emails asking if I could post the shortcut for Flip3D as well, so I've zipped up a copy of that shortcut as well.
To put it back into the Quick Launch folder, open up explorer and then type in the following into the address bar:
shell:Quick Launch
Now just unzip the file and copy it into the folder, and you'll have the Flip3D shortcut back (the one with the real icon)
It seems like many people delete the icons and then don't know how to get them back, which is an interesting problem, since there's not necessarily a good way to restore them otherwise.
The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. When he's not coming up with great how-to articles, he's probably writing at his personal blog. This article was written on 08/15/07 and tagged with: Windows Vista, Desktop Customization
my icons are missing how do i get them back
Thanks! I just needed the ZIP and no one else has it!
Please if you can tell me how to restore the icon of the Pictures and Music folders. After a restart they disapeared and were replaced (the icons not the folder) with normal folder icons.
Thanks!
i only have a .ink file. Can you upload the zip file?
I have vista ultimate. By mstake I un-installed Windows Media Center. How can I restore it? Tried system restore, but no luck. Thanking you in advance, Mick
Thank you so much for this I have been hunting around to correct this problem. I notice alot of people are suffering this, I never deleted my shortcut, but it did suprisingly disapear right after a windows update??????????????
Thanks for the advice, I did not have a switch icon, I downloaded it and it works great. Being a Windows update it is odd that this is even happening….
Hey thanks for posting this just saved me so much work
I have the flip 3D icon but it doesnt seem to work. It just shows a flat box. Also, my preview/thumb nail icons have gone from the bottom toolbar. When i hovered over open tabs they used to show a little preview, now all they do is show wording like "windows explorer" rather than actually showing a mini pic - how do i get the preview images back and get the 3D flip actually showing a 3D image?